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The ‘F’ word in Medical Course
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on February 27th, 2009 at 04:59 PM (439 Views)
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They say "when everything is going fine, nothing goes wrong". Similarly, when we face ‘failure’ in life, everything seems to be going wrong. The same principle applies to our days of medical studies too (as it would to many other situations).
However, it is a reality that many students who ‘fail’ in medical course and eventually graduate do ‘well’ in their careers than many others who graduate without any failures during the course. This seems to be an anomaly at the face of it; isn’t our education and evaluation system meant to discriminate such qualities in students?
But we often neglect that failure itself is a catalyst for change. The life-changing change.
What I am trying to tell is comparable to what happens to a patient with cardiac failure when she is administered a beta-blocker. Initially there is worsening… the patient becomes more breathless and despair sets in. But some magical changes happen ‘within’. The cells express more receptors on their surface enhancing the ’senses’ thus resulting in an ‘awakening’. The awakened cells work better than earlier thus increasing cardiac function and resulting in a clinical improvement.
Now you translate that into what would happen to a ‘failed’ student who uses it as a catalyst for change.
This is also true for most other situations in life which we equate to ‘failure’.
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